Combination weight and spatula holder



W, F. HOOD.

COMBINATION WEIGHT AND SPATULA HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED MAY 20. 1919.

.1 388,260. Patented Aug. 23, 1921.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIs F. H001), a citizen of the United States, residing at Highland Park, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Weight and Spatula Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to metallic storing vessels, and more especiall to boxes of the compartment type; and the object of the same is to produce a serviceable receptacle, having cells or compartments for the tiny weights used by pharmacists, and to provide the receptacle with means for preventing it from overturning.

A further object is to carry out the above object by providing the tray or receptacle with a hollow compartment which itself may be used as a receptacle for the spatula or other implements and tools often required by the druggist.

Other objects will appear in the following specification and claims. Referring to the drawings,

Figure 1 is a plan view of this device complete and F Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of \lvhile I am describing this device as made of'metal, I do not wish to be limited in that respect. Essentially it comprises a tray for the weights, and a hollow base for the spatula, and by preference the tray has a cover. The tray is herein shown as made up of a base plate 1, end plates 2, a front wall 3 and a pair of narrow rear walls 4, a corrugated bottom 5, and partitions 6 across said bottom, producing compartments or cells 7 as best seen in Fig. 1. By preference there are two rows of corrugations at the bottom and as seen in Fig. 1 these may well be marked with characters within each independent compartment or all to designate the weights which are to be put into the compartments or cells 7.

A cover 10 may be hinged at 11 to the rear of the tray, or the cover may be otherwise attached, or may be left loose so that its flange 12 may he slipped downward on the tray when the receptacle is not in use. But it is the general custom of the careful pharmacist to protect his weights from injury, displacement and loss. Some of them Specification of Letters Patent' are so small that extreme pains must be taken to prevent their becoming lost or covered with other articles. Hence the advisability of keeping them in a compartment receptacle, well covered when not in use.

The gist of the present invention might be said to lie in combining with this tray a hollow bottom piece so that the spatula may be mounted therein-the idea being not simply the combination of the two elements, but the additional protection afforded to the tray and its weights by combining with it a larger element sothat it will rest on a base or keel which cannot be easily overturned and which, in fact, when it contains other elements is of added weight. This idea is carried out by continuing the base plate 1 to the rear as shown in Fig. 2, then carrying it downward at 13 in a rear wall and forwardat 14 in a bottom plate, leaving the front open as at 15. End walls 16 complete the receptacle which is therefore somewhat deeper than the tray and extends to the rear of it for quite a distance. in fact be made wider than the tray; but as the spatula is a long narrow implement, it may well be slipped into the receptacle thus produced and kept within convenient reach of the pharmacist. It will be clear that whatever implements or tools are kept within this hollow base would add to its weight so that an increased safeguard is provided to prevent the overturning or accidental knocking over of the tray which contains the weights.

In forming the device herein the upper wall of the spatula compartment is extended out from the base so that the wall 3 can be bent upward therefrom; the upper part is also slitted the width of the back wall portions 4 to the edge of the metal and the slitted portions are cut off to leave the walls 4 and the hinged members 11 formed thereon. The weight trays are formed from a single piece of metal which is bent down at the ends to form the end walls 2. y

The foregoing description has-reference to what may be considered the preferred or approved form of my invention. It is to be understood that I may make such changes in construction and arran ement and combination of parts, materlals, dimensions, etcetera, as may prove expedient and fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Patented Aug. 23, 1921. Application filed May 20, 1919. Serial No. 298,508. i

It might,

Having thus fully described my invention, 3. A tray for apothecaries weights and what I claim as new and desire to secure by the like and keel therefor, comprising a Letters Patent is chamber open at the front and provided with 1. A tray for apothecaries weights and standards upstanding from its top forsup- 15 5 the like and a keel therefor, the keel com porting atray;

prising an expansion of the base of the tray. In testimon whereof I affix my signature into a compartment beneath the tray. in presence 0 two witnesses;

2. A tray for apothecaries Weights and. WILLIS F. HOOD.

the like and keel therefor, the keel com-" WVitnesses: V 10 prising a compartment aflixed to the tray F. J. PORTE adapted to receive a spatula. a p D. J LINDZAY. 

